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Visual Storytelling
Inspiring a New
Visual Language
R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, F. Schulze
256
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24 × 30 cm
978-3-89955-375-8
about the book
A new visual language that is both informative and entertaining is emerging at the nexus of
information graphics, illustration, and tactile design.
More and more data is being collected. We can access ever more information
at any time and from any place. The fundamental challenge now is how to
extract the most valuable news, the most surprising findings, and the most
relevant stories from the flood of information that is available to us.
A new generation of designers, illustrators, data journalists, and graphic
editors is addressing this challenge head-on. They are expanding the creative
scope of existing techniques in visual storytelling—using graphic
design, infographics, illustration, and photography to convey information
in the most elegant, entertaining, and informative way. The main idea
behind visual storytelling is to take familiar image contexts and use them
in a new way. By penetrating meaning and creating associations, abstract
correlations can be visualized in a manner that is both easy to understand
and aesthetically innovative. Today, visual storytelling is being used inten-
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sively in newspapers, magazines, websites, advertising, business reports,
and museums.
Visual Storytelling is the first book to focus solely on contemporary and
experimental manifestations of visual forms that can be classified as such.
The rich selection of cutting-edge examples featured here is put into context
with an introduction and text features by magazine expert Andrew
Losowsky as well as interviews with the New York Times, Francesco Franchi,
Density Design, Carl Kleiner, Antoine Corbineau, Golden Section Graphics, Les
Graphiquants, and Peter Grundy.
The inspiring, insightful, interactive, and entertaining work and texts collected
in Visual Storytelling reveal how the contextualization of information
is pushing the envelope of today’s design and aesthetics.
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